61. These are still my favorite chocolate truffles, but the original recipe from Chocolat, included raw egg. 62. This has resulted in advice not to use raw eggs to make things like mayonnaise, Caesar salad and uncooked sauces, and to cook all egg dishes thoroughly. 63. Thorough cooking kills salmonella, so people should avoid eating underdone meats, unpasteurized milk and foods made with raw eggs. 64. To ensure fertility, women crawl into the grotto and place raw eggs with their names on them around the temple stone. 65. To hand-blow eggs, pierce each end of a raw egg with a pin. 66. Unlike classic homemade eggnog, in which raw eggs are an ingredient, commercial eggnog has to be pasteurized to comply with Food and Drug Administration regulations. 67. Wednesday, a nutrition advocacy group in Washington called for federal regulations that could make raw eggs reliably safe to eat. 68. Whether you want to eat raw eggs in salad dressing, meringues, sauces and other recipes is a personal choice. 69. When we left, we were each presented with a beautifully wrapped raw egg, laid by the chickens we had come to know so well. 70. Whenever the subject of raw eggs comes up, questions come flowing in. |